Category Archives: health & happiness

christmas giving

24 Wednesday Dec 2008

Posted by in christmas, friends, health & happiness, holidays, home, life stuff

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christmas-presents

A few last minute Christmas gift ideas …

“… mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Keep a promise. Find the time. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologise if you were wrong. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it out still once again.”

progress report (5)

13 Saturday Dec 2008

Posted by in cancer, friends, health & happiness, progress

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It’s now 23 days after my last operation (liver resection and removal of one out of two peritoneal lesions) and I’m finally getting my strength back. This one really took it outta me, and getting that nasty infection last week didn’t help. But I am definitely on the mend and of course the amazing biopsy results have helped a lot. Though I remain cautiously optimistic…

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biopsy report

11 Thursday Dec 2008

Posted by in cancer, health & happiness, hospitals

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biopsy

All three biopsies came back negative!!!

So it was back to the hospital this morning with Pipocas. I was supposed to get my belly looked at again after last week’s emergency trip due to having an infection.  I was worried because something gross had ruptured through the incision and was looking rather nasty, but it turned out not to be anything serious and I was even told I could stop taking the antibiotics now.  And while there I asked Amazing Nurse Person if she could check and see if my biopsy reports had come back …

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lunch in sanlúcar

07 Sunday Dec 2008

Posted by in food & drink, friends, health & happiness, restaurants, spain, trips

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feriasanlucar

Had lunch in Sanlúcar de Barrameda yesterday.

It was the first time I’d been out of the house in a week (not including the hospital visit last Wednesday) so I was quite looking forward to getting out and going somewhere nice for lunch with Pipocas.  I was also feeling cautious of overdoing it like I did on my first day out after the liver op. And so of course I ended up going on a six-hour trip in order to eat the famous langostinos of Sanlúcar…

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